Lael Stone

I'm like, you just stand there and you're like, this is it.

I am here in my being and I'm not going to be pushed over within it.

And it's both a blessing and a curse.

And it's like when you think about you would have learned that as a kid because you had to of gauging energy where everything is at.

Yeah, I was the same too.

I was such a shy kid.

And so painfully shy that the only way that I felt I could feel safe in the environment is to watch and read other people.

So black became a protective mechanism for myself of just like, oh, that person does that thing.

And like, I remember, I have memories of like being four or five sitting under like the dining room table, watching the adults and going, oh, that person just always tries to make people laugh.

And that person, they don't look good even though they're smiling.

Like I just remember, I could feel it even as a kid.

making sense and i remember thinking and i didn't realize that not everybody did that read people but i could always and then you'd go into a room and i'd know what i have to do to help the room feel better same you know which was again sometimes that i needed to stay nice and happy and safe in order to feel okay so you know i realized that that's there was really protective parts within that but it was also just part of my nature of being really sensitive as well

to energies, to people, to all those kinds of things, which makes me good working as a therapist with people, right?

Because you can read and you feel and you sense.

So there are these beautiful gifts that we have, yet they also can be hard, really hard sometimes because you're feeling all of what's going on and which is why you often need some serious recharge time because- That's why I'm such, like people laugh.

Yeah, we're all so different with our superpowers that we all have and that sensitivity and feeling deeply is so needed in this world.

And my daughter was on the podcast and we talked about that and she was talking about how

She said for a while I thought that was wrong, that I was so sensitive, but you know, she said to me it was beautiful, she goes, mum, you made me realize that actually that's one of my best gifts that I have, that I feel deeply, I can sense what's going on, you know, that's one of the most beautiful things about me.

And I was like, I love that you know that that's beautiful.

And a lot of people I'm sure who are listening to this would be like, yeah, that's me.